Disclosure Day, Spielberg's new summer film
Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day opens with Emily Blunt delivering a standout lead performance and a score by 94-year-old John Williams. The film follows a government cover up of extraterrestrial intelligence and a rush to broadcast the truth, with a scientist figure named Garry Nolan championing a data-driven, open scientific approach. Spielberg reframes blockbuster spectacle as human urgency, arguing that science, faith, and empathy can coexist while Williams' orchestral themes heighten the film's emotional stakes.
I know you're all watching the game but just wanna let you know that DISCLOSURE DAY is fucking incredible. Like, right, THIS is what a big-budget four-quadrant summer studio movie can be, I kinda forgot
Jason Bailey31ALSO this is the first Janusz Kamiński movie I've seen since I spent a year watching DIE HARD and maaaaan the Jan De Bont influence was clear to me in a way it was not before!
Matthew Jackson6Jason I was vibrating for two and a half hours.
Mi Ra SOUL4A friend of mine who is a composer shared an IG story regarding John Williams’s DD score saying, “He’s still got it!”
One of the many things I love about Disclosure Day is that it's a complete refutation of the idea that there are two Steven Spielbergs, one the man who pleases the summer-blockbuster give-me-back-my-childhood fans, the other the Oscar guy. This is as personal a movie in its way as The Fabelmans.
Mark Harris58One of my many biases about Spielberg is that I don't have a huge amount of patience with moviegoers who want their childhoods spoon-fed back to them. If after the way The Fabelmans and Disclosure Day both address the problems with doing that, you still want it from him...then I just [shrug emoji].
tgage2His best directing is capturing Forrest Gump and Ed Grimley doing the final scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. #martinshortdoc
